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Max
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bot_Maximus
« on: Dec 25th, 2013, 3:39pm » |
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Hi,
after climbing the advanced bot ladder on my own I am needing a new challenge. So I am developing a bot from scratch.
I am looking forward to how high it can climb the bot ladder.
Its name will be bot_Maximus, a combination from my name "Max" and the "minimax" search it will use. Maximus is also a latin word which means "the biggest".
The bot will be written in JAVA and have the following features:
- generating all possible next moves and playing a "human" one of them (no unneccessary steps (Ra1eew -> Ra1e); not changing the played animal if possible (Ra1e Df2n Rb1e -> Ra1ee Df2n);...)
- special last moves (animal suicides; goaling the opposite rabbit;...)
- setting up the animals (for both colours) and playing the first move (as gold): very fast, because precalculated
bot_Maximus will be playable for humans when there is a bugfree version.
At first I wanted to call it bot_tle becaus I thought it will never play better than an empty bottle. We will see if that name would have fit better.
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Fritzlein
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #1 on: Dec 25th, 2013, 10:26pm » |
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on Dec 25th, 2013, 3:39pm, Max wrote:Hi,
after climbing the advanced bot ladder on my own I am needing a new challenge. |
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Say, if you are really looking for a challenge, I notice that you haven't yet registered for the World Championship. 
Quote:So I am developing a bot from scratch.
I am looking forward to how high it can climb the bot ladder.
Its name will be bot_Maximus, a combination from my name "Max" and the "minimax" search it will use. Maximus is also a latin word which means "the biggest". |
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I look forward to watching bot_Maximus progress. Thanks for keeping us posted.
Quote:At first I wanted to call it bot_tle becaus I thought it will never play better than an empty bottle. We will see if that name would have fit better.
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If I ever make an Arimaa engine, it will probably be bot_ched. 
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Arimabuff
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #2 on: Dec 26th, 2013, 7:38am » |
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on Dec 25th, 2013, 10:26pm, Fritzlein wrote:
...If I ever make an Arimaa engine, it will probably be bot_ched. |
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If I ever did one it'd be more like bot_ulism.
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Max
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #3 on: Dec 26th, 2013, 10:03am » |
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A moving move
Quote:| Say, if you are really looking for a challenge, I notice that you haven't yet registered for the World Championship. |
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I will be on vacation for some weeks, so I am not able to take part in the 2014 World Championship. 
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Fritzlein
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #4 on: Dec 26th, 2013, 11:16am » |
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on Dec 26th, 2013, 10:03am, Max wrote:
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Heh.
Quote:| I will be on vacation for some weeks, so I am not able to take part in the 2014 World Championship. |
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Ah, too bad. Your absence is our loss.
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Max
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #5 on: Jan 5th, 2014, 9:18pm » |
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Maximus played its first game through the gameroom (without any intelligence yet).
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #6 on: Jan 6th, 2014, 6:18pm » |
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Now Maximus has made its first step on the bot ladder. 
I have to work much on this bot so that it can win against the next bot on the ladder too.
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #7 on: Apr 28th, 2014, 2:21pm » |
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After successfully helping mankind defending the Arimaa Challenge 2014 as a human defender I now have time to improve bot_Maximus.
One thing I did:
Maximus now uses bitboards. That makes the move generation much faster.
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Re: bot_Maximus
« Reply #8 on: Aug 2nd, 2014, 11:40am » |
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bot_Maximus is quitting playing arimma with a rating of 1325 points. It was not fun for him to loose so many times and not reaching a higher rating.
But luckily he has a younger sister who is more intelligent than him. She will start playing arimaa soon and hopefully advance much faster than her older brother did. So look forward to bot_Maxy 
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